Southern Football League

[qwerty]

Morphies have always had good juniors due to the large suburb size and Wirreanda a stones throw away.

They didn't have much success in their A's for some time from the early 80's. When they started to improve they started to get a few back from south, gaskin, landorf, ritter, ewer, stagg, erickson plus i think pollard back from the bays. Add to this a few younger players who weren't getting games or left south i.e nads, beeching, both hills, hodge, smith and im sure there are plenty more. Combine this with a great coach in pottsy and they could only improve and others have said had a fair group stick together for the long haul.

They have been able to maintain success as the youngsters were always there and now they can bleed them in to senior footy which will result in sustained success. I think clubs like noarlunga, cove, porties and aldinga will start to improve big time in the next 5-10years with the population explosion and them having access to a large pool of juniors for the first time.

[Hills]

Cyclops have you been living under a rock for the last 2 years? you seem to know a bit about the players at Mvale and yet you dont know why there succesful. You sound like another one of those Morphies "supporters" that want to hear about how succesful the club is. So for that, your a w**ka!

[rodney fox]

Cyclops have you been living under a rock for the last 2 years? you seem to know a bit about the players at Mvale and yet you dont know why there succesful. You sound like another one of those Morphies "supporters" that want to hear about how succesful the club is. So for that, your a w**ka!

I Don't like to admit it Hills but I have to agree.

[Hills]

on the GSFL forum P32 has put on there that the Southern Zone is going to withdrawl from the zone compition if the RMFL is not included in the South zone.
Anyone heard any rumours?

[Brock Landers]

There is a thread on this in regional footy leagues. Very interesting.


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[Waterboy]

on the GSFL forum P32 has put on there that the Southern Zone is going to withdrawl from the zone compition if the RMFL is not included in the South zone.
Anyone heard any rumours?

It's no rumour. Southern, Great Southern and Hills have had their invitations withdrawn by the SANFL and won't be competing. Southern Zone will be organised by Kangaroo Island league and the SANFL.

[The Hunter]

Hey guys. new on here just keen to give and hear opinions. Any opinions on this weeks games?

[Panther32]

on the GSFL forum P32 has put on there that the Southern Zone is going to withdrawl from the zone compition if the RMFL is not included in the South zone.
Anyone heard any rumours?

It's no rumour. Southern, Great Southern and Hills have had their invitations withdrawn by the SANFL and won't be competing. Southern Zone will be organised by Kangaroo Island league and the SANFL.

Which includes players from the GSFL, Hills, SFL and KI leagues...ridiculous!

[Bag The Points]

Welcome Hunter fairly predictable round this week again. Hard to pick the match of the day ---- maybe Marion v. Brighton

[Warrior Hawk]

Any truth to the rumour that one Scott "Take the money and run" Kelly has been seen around the Lonsdale footy club of recent weeks?? Training apparantly.....

Good luck with that Scott.... Just so you know..... Your attitude down at Hackham was the reason you ended up spitting the dummy and running home to watch Home 'n Away! With a meat-head coach telling everyone how good he has been, was it any wonder the numbers dropped right off at training?? You treated the younger boys like crap and singled players out for trying their hardest.... Stick to playing, because your coaching skills are $hit!!!

Oh yeah, we've been getting well above 45 out to training since you left..... Go figure!!

I would be the first one to laugh if you did your knee on that oval down there!

Other than that, Hackham tried their guts out against Valleys yesterday.... Very proud of everyone involved.....

[LaughingKookaburra]

Thats pretty intense

[Injured Phantom]

Say what you really think Warrior .... That's honesty at its best. I respect that! What as the score against valley's not in paper. Also well done Aldinga in another close one against Porties. A win in a close game cant be far away!

If Kelly is at Lonsdale they could do with a hand (no disrepect to the players Lion Heart). I saw two & bit quarters against Reynella yesterday. The lions were very under manned & with several of Reynellas injured players returning to the match, they looked lost. The players tried to follow an apparant plan & I heard they played a super first quarter but I couldn't understand some tactics from the coaches bench.

Why play a flood if the players are not going to work hard when you gain possession of the footy? The foot skills were not silky enough under pressure to short pass their way down the ground. This flood left Butcher (& Farrier at times) to run around half back without an opponent then run forward to gain easy possessions. The idea of having two men stand in front of Milo was interesting (plus his direct opponent), but have a bloke half a foot & considerably slower stand Mensforth who owned half forward. If Milo didnt hit the post as often as he did (I saw three) the damage could have been even worse. Lonsdale had no answer more the smarts of Moore, and the taggers that followed Prescott were more interested in holding onto him rather than winning the footy.

I hope Reynella dont gauge this game as season defining & get ahead of themselves.

[lion heart]

Say what you really think Warrior .... That's honesty at its best. I respect that! What as the score against valley's not in paper. Also well done Aldinga in another close one against Porties. A win in a close game cant be far away!

If Kelly is at Lonsdale they could do with a hand (no disrepect to the players Lion Heart). I saw two & bit quarters against Reynella yesterday. The lions were very under manned & with several of Reynellas injured players returning to the match, they looked lost. The players tried to follow an apparant plan & I heard they played a super first quarter but I couldn't understand some tactics from the coaches bench.

Why play a flood if the players are not going to work hard when you gain possession of the footy? The foot skills were not silky enough under pressure to short pass their way down the ground. This flood left Butcher (& Farrier at times) to run around half back without an opponent then run forward to gain easy possessions. The idea of having two men stand in front of Milo was interesting (plus his direct opponent), but have a bloke half a foot & considerably slower stand Mensforth who owned half forward. If Milo didnt hit the post as often as he did (I saw three) the damage could have been even worse. Lonsdale had no answer more the smarts of Moore, and the taggers that followed Prescott were more interested in holding onto him rather than winning the footy.

I hope Reynella dont gauge this game as season defining & get ahead of themselves.

First off Kelly has definately not trained with the lions.

Reynella were way too good with both key forwards running rampant and Moore doing as he pleased. Dont know what game you were watching phantom but lions DID NOT flood but instead tried to play posession game. This game obviously isnt going to work when we have 12 players out of our best 21 and while the players tried theirs guts out unfortunately many of them simply arent up to A grade football.The only player who drifted back was our ruckman who stood in the hole in front of milo and we played a 6 man forward line at all times.

Missing key position players meant reynella key forwards did have guys a foot shorter on them but these guys competed very well considering the supply. Two guys backed up from the reserves, 3 guys made their senior debut and probably 8 of our 21 had less than a handful of A grade games under their belt. Unfortunately our depth is a major worry and yesterdays lineup would be by far the worst team lions have ever put on the park in their history.

We just need to get through this tough period and regain some players over the next 4-6 weeks. Our season may be over as far as making finals is concerned but hopefully we can finish the season off strong and help decide who will take the 7-8 positions with games against marion, morphy pk, aldinga, christies in the run home.

[fisho mcspaz]

Another close one for the Sharks. I was much more impressed than last week - thought we hung in there for all four quarters this time. Keep it up!!!

We've got Reynella at home next week - wouldn't it be awesome to get on top of them. Oh yeah, and to any old U-18s that are reading this - it'd be great to see you all down by the southern goals again!

[comeon]

happy valley v hawks any scores form yesterday not in the paper

[Injured Phantom]

So that was the situation Lion Heart regarding the team line up. Good luck, hope you get a few back.

As for the flooding tactic, why most of second quarter did you have 17 players in Reynellas half, with the only Lion was an impressive (very quick, i think #5) who was up on the half forward line? If you didnt play a flood tactic, I guess your coach better teach guys to hold a position better. Even forwards need to be aware where their direct opponent is and what influence they are having on the game.

Like the look of Schultz (football wise), but that young guy (#5?) is one you guys need to hang on to & nurture. As for Tyler, must go close to being the biggest talker in the comp....

[Bag The Points]

Think the Valley kicked just over 30 to about two.
What has happened to Christies Beach ?? Used to be a huge giant in this League --- if you beat Christies you had to be close to the Flag. Now they seem to be plunging down towards where the Hawks are at the rate of knots.
43-23 to 4-4 ---- terrible !!!!

[Courtney Fish]

Aldinga up all game except the last few minutes, are they getting motivational speeches from Chocko Williams about how to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

[Warrior Hawk]

First off Kelly has definately not trained with the lions.

Just going on a rumour that I heard..... Got told he has been seen around the club.... I actually like the Lions so it was no dig at the club itself.... Just a little dig at the bloke himself (Trust me, he deserves it) I admire Lonsdale for still sticking at it against all odds (no juniors etc.)

As for the scores at the Valley.... Happy Valley 32 goals to Hackham 2 goals.... But this was after Valleys kicked 10 in the final term... Hackham really stood up on Saturday and showed that we are not the 60 goal witches hats that we have been in the past! Some of the Valley boys were starting to lose their heads in the 3rd term when they were actually finding it difficult to score against the Hawks!

Cannot wait for next Saturday down at Krusties..... Will be very interesting to see how Hackham's juniors go.... And also to see how the seniors account for themselves against an opposition that is struggling!

Was nice to see the Hawks 6/7's kick 20.23 to zip against the Lions today though

[Waterboy]

First off Kelly has definately not trained with the lions.

Just going on a rumour that I heard..... Got told he has been seen around the club.... I actually like the Lions so it was no dig at the club itself.... Just a little dig at the bloke himself (Trust me, he deserves it) I admire Lonsdale for still sticking at it against all odds (no juniors etc.)

As for the scores at the Valley.... Happy Valley 32 goals to Hackham 2 goals.... But this was after Valleys kicked 10 in the final term... Hackham really stood up on Saturday and showed that we are not the 60 goal witches hats that we have been in the past! Some of the Valley boys were starting to lose their heads in the 3rd term when they were actually finding it difficult to score against the Hawks!

Cannot wait for next Saturday down at Krusties..... Will be very interesting to see how Hackham's juniors go.... And also to see how the seniors account for themselves against an opposition that is struggling!

Was nice to see the Hawks 6/7's kick 20.23 to zip against the Lions today though

Great to see the Hawks have got some good juniors coming through. There were some rather handy looking kids out there today.
Lions 6/7s are down on numbers, only 12 of them played today, with 6 of 4/5s playing a second game. At least they kept at it for the entire game.
If people want to talk about flooding, maybe they should have seen this game, 32 kids in the Hawks forward 50 in the last 5 minutes of the game